THE NEW YORKER f R I1If /_ ;. / 1,' Jt;. t, r:d::: r:!\ :i 1 ..<::::: . ,., ;':.'L::\..-. any I've ever owned. It_ ":'??:: , ;!.;o:.-r,,<< , "'" (. ";...,." ...,.,"";":::.;:: ?\ ,',' ,',' . ','= ,.,',......i.}( Qf ":. .,1 r.:ol ..1 ''1 ':1 I I I ::1 '1 :i{i: J :. . .-. . SHE LV AD OR What Is A LOVE APPLE? ANS.-A love apple is what your great-great-grand- mother used to call the to- ma to. In spi te of the charm- ing name, she believed it to be inedible. Today we not only eat tomatoes but drink them '\vith relish. To enjoy a tastier, Ii velier, more refresh- ing tomato juice cocktail, add a teaspoonful of Lea & Perrins Sauce to a glass of your favorite brand. It also works wonders as a season- ing for appetizers, steaks, fish, soups, salads, gravies. LEA & PERRINS , "11 "ß THE ORIGINAL "-" WORCESTERSHIRE whom England bought to fight the Colonists. , . GENERAL SEMI-CENTENNIAL: SOME OF THE LIFE AND PART OF THE OPINIONS OF LEONARD BACON. Reminiscences, witty, dogmatic, bookish, of a fifty- year-old unreconstructed individual- ist. Mr. Bacon is a good satiric poet, a former teacher, and an intellectual who does not value too highly cur- rent intellectual fetishes His own yeas and nays are possibly less inter- esting than his accounts of the famous personalities he's met. A DIARY OF THE FRENCH REVO- LUTION, 1789-1793, by Gouverneur Morris, edited by Beatrix Cary Dav- enport. An especially vivid diary, nev- er before published in its entire- ty, recording the impressions of our Minister to France during the Revo- lution. Morris was an unpleasant man and a rabid snob, but this does not de- tract from the historical importance of these two handsome, wen-illus- trated volumes. RIVALRY ON THE ATLANTIC, by Com- mander W. Mack i\ngas, U.S.N. The story, an absorbing one, of the ships and men who have made one hundred years of transatlantic-cross- ing history. Remarkable illustrations and plenty of them. ADVENTURES WITH A LAMP, by Ruth Louise Partridge. The lamp in ques- tion is Florence Nightingale's. Mrs. Partridge tells, with many gory and rather fascinating medical details, how it feels to be a hard-worked nurse in training at the mercy of stupid and brutal superiors. One may won- der why on earth the girls stick at it. RurH ST. DENIS: AN UNFINISHED LIFE. Required reading for students of the dance in ...America, this auto- biography is a candid, personal story, a little too high-flown and exaltc, perhaps, to appeal to a large public. Photographs. SPANISH PRISONER, by Peter Elstob. Experiences of an English airplane pilot who, intending to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the Loyalists, wound up in a Loyalist prison. Mr. Elstob does not have much equipment to be a writer, but he's seen and heard things worth your attention. SECRET AND URGENT, by Fletcher Pratt. Entertaining popular h1story of codes, ciphers, and cryptograms from old Egyptian inscriptions down to to- day's Black Chamb rs. M'CONNACHIE AND J. M. B., with a foreword by Hugh \Valpole. ...A col- - a :z: -t m Z en 1ft . . . 1ft r- . . 87 .. . . .. . . . .. .. . .. -:: .. :.-= J (J á 1nu1lt þWzt tkt IzM a . Ýuj un 1jDuJr. o/ : !Dvnt jþti/ it with aJL wa1Lt I \JJ 7jfíUJWÞ-wk m , i.nAiÆ un tk tut:. zm:th Jiac/uM. ífk ':' .:i .', :--,""'" ',.( "i 86 PROOF .. .. ' .". , r' ' , . 'C) .....4:" .. "; TEACHER'S Perfection of Blended SCOTCH WHISKY Made since 1830 by Wm. Teacher & Sons, ltd., Glasgow SOLE U. S. AGENTS r Schieffelin & CO. NEW YORK CITY · IMPORTERS SINCE 1794